Quotes About Wonder

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

At the age of eight, I still dreamed of being granted plant status.

We are hemmed round with mystery, and the greatest mysteries are contained in what we see and do every day.

We see the clouds of summer go and come, And thirsty verdure praying them to give: We cry, "O Nature, tell us why we live!" She smiles with beauty, but her lips are dumb.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Glorious white birds in the blue October heights over the solemn unrest of ocean—their passing was more than music, and from their wings descended the old loveliness of earth which both affirms and heals. IV

Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

A world without wonder, and a way of mind without wonder, becomes a world without imagination, and without imagination man is a poor and stunted creature. Religion, poetry, and all the arts have their sources in this upwelling of wonder and surprise. Let us thank God that so much will forever remain out of reach, safe from our inquiry, inviolate forever from our touch.

sharpened and the house will have an odd little way of opening doors by itself and leaning to one side.

All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

'Twas in this lovely garden first I saw your loveliness displayed; You sat; my heart was high, and durst Sit by you wondering, undismay'd; You rose: my heart fell on its face And knew the Genius of the place.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

do not understand, and perhaps never will. As the evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane observed, it's not just that the universe might be stranger than we think, but that it might be stranger than we can think.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

David was so filled with ecstasy at this glory-filled vocation (of the creation mandate) that he exclaimed in awe and wonder, "What is man that Thou art mindful of him?... For Thou hast made him a little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honor... Thou hast put all things under his feet." To say that culture is man's calling in the covenant is only another way of saying that culture is religiously determined.

I lie on my side I wonder how much pain and horror can be contained In one human mind I turn on the light All I can think about is going somewhere

Without awe, life is flatline.

The mystery of death is not solved by dying just as the mystery of life is not solved by living .

He that hath found some fledg'd bird's nest, may know At first sight, if the bird be flown; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown

Now comes the mystery.

Mankind loves misterys--a hole in the ground, excites mor wonder than a star in the heavens.